Career development opportunities for research in research infrastructure projects

Dr. C. Zoani is a researcher at the ENEA Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division and holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry. Additionally, she has completed research activities for a second PhD in Agriculture, Food and Environment. As a specialist in atomic spectroscopic and mass spectrometry techniques and metrology, she conducts R&D activities on reference materials and methods, measurement uncertainty, food quality, safety, traceability, sustainability of agrifood systems, and chemical risk assessment. She is also the Scientific Secretary of the IMEKO TC23 Metrology in Food and Nutrition and a member of the Eurachem WG on Reference Materials and UNI Committee General Metrology. She has been selected as one of the ten Italian experts on Circular Economy to participate in the Comité des Dix-Italie - Sommet des Deux Rives initiative by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). In 2014, she received the Premio Leonardo UGIS for her research and communication skills. She is the coordinator of the Research Infrastructure METROFOODRI, which promotes metrology in food and nutrition and is included in the ESFRI Roadmap for the Health and Food domain. Recently, the METROFOOD-RI concluded its Preparatory Phase under the H2020 project METROFOOD-PP. She is engaged as PI for ENEA in several national and European ongoing projects, such as the HEu AgroServ and DGR4Food, the H2020 FNS-Cloud, iNEXT-Discovery and FoodSafety4EU and the ERANET SUSFOOD CORE ORGANIC “PROVIDE”. She coordinates the METROFOOD-IT project as part of the Italian National Plan for Recovery and Resilience. The project focuses on strengthening the infrastructure for Metrology and Open Access Data to support the agrifood industry.